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To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Alexander Sanda <entropy@compufit.at>,
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Subject: Re: gcc 2.8 
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On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Kris Kennaway wrote:
[...]
> > Agreed, we need better C++ support.  But obtaining it at the price of 
> > damaging the operating system itself is not a tradeoff I think any of 
> > us would be happy with.
> 
> For the record, most of the C++ stuff in the source tree is not compilable
> with egcs..from memory the other parts which I have to compile with gcc
> are due to extra compiler warnings which cause compilation to fail (i.e. 
> warnings treated as errors), the lkms (egcs doesnt have -aout) and the
> biosboot stuff (exceeds maximum length). 

This is somewhat bogus.  The libg++ and stdc++ in the source tree will be
ditched anyways (as they should be), as will lkms.  What do you mean that
it exceeds maximum length? As for the rest.. I'm sure it's easily fixed.

- alex

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